[EasySt]

Or why they might even pay you to eat it...

~Easy

[samtheman]

Good one

[redfreedom]

That’s the best analogy yet.

But it’s still to tough to understand for the useful idiots.

[a fool in paradise]

The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese

[samtheman]

I have an interesting variation on the socialism mouse trap analogy.

We occasionally have mice in our house and I have noticed that when they appear (usually at the end of the summer they start finding their way into the house somehow), and I set traps — always use peanut butter, not cheese — they at first ignore the traps but then start to nibble bits of peanut butter off without triggering the trap.

It’s like they start out being extremely cautious, then a bit experimental and for awhile they actually get good at cleaning off the peanut butter without triggering the trap, which I always find amusing because I know how it’s going to end.

And it does always end.

Always the same way.

With me end up buying new traps (because I just throw them away once they’ve done their job... don’t really want to clean them up).

Anyway, my point is this:

With the socialism/mousetrap analogy... sometimes it actually IS free food, for some critters, for some amount of time.

But the ending is ALWAYS bad for the “recipients”.

Always.

No matter how good it looks at first.